Willowbrook Saga: Through the Generations

by Shannon Muir

THE WILLOWBROOK SAGA follows generations of intrigue, mystery, and exploitation. Willowbrook, Washington, was a small community influenced by the arrival of outsiders looking to live a different lifestyle. Over the decades, they took their ways further and further underground while constructing an economy that allowed them to hide in plain sight. Follow the women influenced by the cultural of this fictional small town from pioneer days in the rural Inland Northwest, down to World War II through the 1960s and 1970s and starting to come to a head in the 1990s, as the women raised to live this way fight for change any way they can, especially once a genealogy essay assigned by their English teacher Esther Rawlins starts to crack open hidden mysteries. This book brings together the previously published BY THE WILLOW BROOK, BEYOND THE WILLOW BROOK, EVERYTHING CHANGES, and DOWN TO THE ROOTS into a single collection, plus several Willowbrook short stories only previously available in anthologies - "Blurring Lines," "Built to Be," "Call to Family, "Enough is Enough," "New Beginnings," and "The Lazy D".

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Published December 15, 2015

About the author

SHANNON MUIR's prose encourages readers to "uncover the mystery of character," with an emphasis on mystery, New Pulp and noir, science fiction, and fantasy. She’s also known for writing animation scripts and for textbooks written based on her experience in the animation industry, now out of print, entitled GARDNER'S GUIDE TO WRITING AND PRODUCING ANIMATION and GARDNER'S GUIDE TO PITCHING AND SELLING ANIMATION.

She has written “Tropical Terror” in CRIME DOWN ISLAND and “Hidden History” in EXPLORER PULP, “Tragic Like a Torch Song” in THE DAME DID IT, and preceded by her debut genre fiction story “Pretty as a Picture” in the anthology NEWSHOUNDS from Pro Se Press - all of which are now collected in SECRETS IN THE SPOTLIGHT since these stories are or will be going out of print. Addidtionally, her stories are "Ghost in the Past" from THE GHOST PAPERS: ARMS IN THE DARK and the short story “Meeting the Monster” in the Emby Press anthology SUPERHERO MONSTER HUNTER: THE GOOD FIGHT, along with the Single Shot New Pulp tale “Ghost of the Airwaves,” Also written by her but now out of print is CHARLES BOECKMAN PRESENTS DOC AND SALL Y IN 'THE DEATH OF BUDDY TURNER'. From her personal self-published projects, best known titles in this area include the rural-noir inspired THE WILLOWBROOK SAGA.


Shannon holds a BA in Radio-TV and English from Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington, which she considers to be her hometown. She also holds an MA in Communications from California State University, Fullerton, and an MLIS from San Jose State University, along with additional education in screenwriting, project management, library technician studies, and most recently a certificate earned with distinction in General Business with Emphasis in Marketing from UCLA Extension.

She is married to FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY collaborator and fellow author Kevin Paul Shaw Broden. They live in California in the United States.